This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 131 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 131 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The main topic of the work; what the poem is "about" A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Subject. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject. 2. A direct comparison of two unlike things (without using the words "like" or "as") A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. The title "Medusa" and the line "turned my hair to filthy snakes" contains an ..... A) Blank verse. B) Sonnet. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 4. This is the repetition of final consonant sounds (king sang a song) A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 5. What is the word for when characters, setting, images, or objects stand for bigger ideas? A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Theme. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 6. Two lines of verse the same length that usually rhyme A) Doublet. B) Couplet. C) Triplet. D) Quadruplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 7. This type of poetry tells a story. A) Narrative. B) Free verse. C) Lyrical. D) Humorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 8. Hero A) The main character or one of the main characters in a story; the character is trying to reach some goal or destination. B) A person who actively opposes the protagonist. C) Character, who in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character, who in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength. 9. All poems rhyme. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. This is when there is no punctuation at the end of a poetic line A) Cesura. B) Enjambment. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 11. A division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit, often repeated in the same pattern of meter and rhyme throughout the poem; a unit of poetic lines (a "paragraph" within the poem). A) Paragraph. B) Line. C) Verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 12. Compares two things without using the words "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 13. The tone of a poem is the ..... attitude toward the subject. A) Reader's. B) Poet's or speaker's. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet's or speaker's. 14. This could include technical things such as the line length and stanza format. Or it could include the flow of the words used and ideas conveyed. A) Tone. B) Diction. C) Mood. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure. 15. What does tone mean? A) The stanza that keeps on repeating after some lines in a poem, see often in songs. B) A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength. C) An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. 16. Change in focus or tone in a poem A) Shift or turn. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shift or turn. 17. What does MLB stand for? (bonus) A) Minor Legions Baseball. B) Minor League Baseball. C) Major Legions Baseball. D) Major League Baseball. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Major League Baseball. 18. Uses she, he, her, him, they, them, names, etc. A) Structure. B) Third person. C) Limerick. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third person. 19. All of these are a type of Narrative Poetry except? A) Epic. B) Allegory. C) Dramatic Monologue. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 20. Crash, ZOINK, Moo, BOOM, and POP are examples of A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoetry Terms Quiz 1Poetry Terms Quiz 2Poetry Terms Quiz 3Poetry Terms Quiz 4Poetry Terms Quiz 5Poetry Terms Quiz 6Poetry Terms Quiz 7Poetry Terms Quiz 8Poetry Terms Quiz 9Poetry Terms Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books